MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association) Style Guide

The second edition of the MHRA Style Guide  is available for download free of charge at:

http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/download.shtml 

This book is on the reading list for DRAM1102.

New digital version of Blueprint Magazine now available

The digital version of Blueprint is now available at http://www.wdis.co.uk/blueprint/ A separate user name and password is needed to access this. Please ask at the Enquiry Desk for these.

How to study: one for the students!

This short piece from the British Psychological Society’s research blog offers “three unintuitive but very effective ways of studying based on findings from psychological research”. In short: space your study sessions out; text yourself regularly; and summarise and integrate before moving on to the next session. So stop cramming, take a break and find ways to summarise what you have just learnt! This doesn’t just have to be in note form – I loved mind mapping when studying for my degree. It works! (Any excuse to get the coloured pencils out…)

Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers

 

NEW! We now have access to the Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers!

This wonderful new resource has been made available free of charge to higher education institutions in the UK.

It includes a full run of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of nineteenth century British society. 

You can access it via the PERI electronic resources pages for all subjects.

NationMaster – world statistics, country comparisons

NationMaster makes it really easy to compare countries and generate maps and graphs. It brings together data from sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD.

The statistics section includes agriculture, crime, democracy, economics, education, environment, food, geography, health, industry, media, religion, sports,… 

Book Buying Event!!!

To all staff…read on!

Dates: 10^th – 14^th Dec 2007Time: 9.30 – 13.00

Venue: Peirson Library

Includes: Opportunity to meet with the Subject Collections Librarians, order texts for your students, ask any collections-related questions, even bring your reading lists along! And…there will be demonstrations of electronic ordering and ‘Slipstream’, the new books alerting service from our main book supplier. 

Please, please come and spread the word as this event has not always been that well attended, but it is a fantastic opportunity to address that old chestnut “The Library never has the books I want…”

New Internet Tutorials for Arts & Humanities

Intute has released new internet searching tutorials for Art & Design, Digital Photography, English and Media & Communication. Suggested web sites and useful tips for searching the Internet.

There are also internet tutorials for History and Performing Arts.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

 

We now subscribe to the wonderful Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). Several of you have been asking for this for ages – it’s finally here!

“The Eighteenth Century Collections Online is the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken. It delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.”

You can access it via the PERI electronic resources pages.

Oxford Journals: Humanities

 

There are 46* full text humanities journals available online via Oxford Journals.

You can search the whole collection easily and it’s very easy to set up RSS feeds/alerts for your favourite journals. Contact Jane if you have any questions.

 * Journals include American Literary History, British Journal of Aesthetics, Contemporary Women’s Writing, Oxford Art Journal, Screen and Twentieth century British History.

Blended Learning newsletter available online

LINK 17 Blended Learning is the December 2006 newsletter from HEA Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Network.

It includes an article on blogging to keep academics informed, written by me, so is definitely worth a look!